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Declassified: Unintended Consequences Of Racial Classifications, Michael Conklin

Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, & Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Review Of Reasoning Beyond Reason: Imagination As A Theological Source In The Work Of C. S. Lewis, Nikolay Epplée

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of: J. T. Sellars, Reasoning Beyond Reason: Imagination as a Theological Source in the Work of C. S. Lewis (Eugene, 2011). 256 pages. $29.00. ISBN: 9781608995035.

"There Is No Emperor": Merlin And The Ideal State In That Hideous Strength, L. S.B. Maccoull

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

C. S. Lewis’ Merlin has been brought forward from the sixth century. In the world he knew, though there was no longer a Roman Emperor in the West, there certainly was an Emperor reigning in Constantinople who could be called upon for aid. A closer look at Lewis’ depiction of Byzantium reveals what role the positive qualities he attributed to the city played in the development of his own views regarding the nature of the realm (or world) we should strive to realize here on earth.

Mixed Speak: Towards A Re-Poetics Of Race And Self, Celina Mizuki Ohga Samuelson

Media and Cultural Studies Honors Projects

This paper tells the stories of mixed-race Japanese people. I engage in a re-poetics, positing storytelling as an essential tool into complicating our understandings of race and self. I examine the relationship between language and race, exploring how subjects existing within a space of mixedness navigate identity-formation and racial belonging. Operating under a socio-constructivist lens, I begin with a brief re-telling of the history of race in Japan, re-framing mythologies of race throughout literature, legislation, and into national and colonial projects. While popular discourse alleges Japan was and is a country of racial homogeneity, I argue that this falsifies colonial …

Demythologizing Homer: Investigating Religion In Minoan Crete, Elizabeth Rybarczyk

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

The Minoan civilization of Bronze-Age Crete has, until recently, been obscured in mythological uncertainty. As a prehistoric civilization, the available evidence for historic analysis is sparse and ambiguous. This paper evaluates the material evidence for ritual activity to chart the religious developments of Minoan Crete. In the earliest periods of their civilization, the Minoans practiced animism, which reflected their ideals towards survival and cooperation. As their prosperity grew due to technological advancements, a social hierarchy formed. The emerging elite employed religion to justify their claim to power by appropriating religion, which culminated in a dual-monotheistic Knossian theocracy. This lasted until …

A Return To The Roots: Mysticism And Psychodrama For Traumatized Populations: A Literature Review, Hyde Nichols

Expressive Therapies Capstone Theses

This paper is a literature review on the spiritual roots of psychodrama and how this can be utilized for traumatized populations. To support this hypothesis, I reviewed research done on post- traumatic stress disorder, spirituality and mysticism, as well as how psychodrama has been utilized for traumatized populations. J.L. Moreno’s original writings on psychodrama and its components and philosophy are utilized to situate mysticism and spirituality within the psychodramatic paradigm. All terms listed above are defined using research done within the United States, although Moreno began his career in Austria. To end the paper I discussed the importance of staying …

The Student Movement Volume 107 Issue 23: So Long, Farewell: Students Step Into The Future, Anna Pak, Gloria Oh, Grace No, Solana Campbell, Ysabelle Fernando, Amelia Stefanescu, Brendan Oh, Bella Hamann, Terika Williams, Gabi Francisco, Abraham Bravo, Elizabeth Dovich

The Student Movement v. 107 (2022-2023)

HUMANS

Advice to Younger Selves, Interviewed by: Anna Pak

Finals Stress Management, Gloria Oh

Farewell to Pastor Dwight Nelson, Student Movement Staff

What does AANHPI Heritage Month Mean?, Grace No

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Currently: Reflecting on the Original Script, Solana Campbell

In Memory of K.V. Rathnam, Ysabelle Fernando

"The Deal" Premiers at Sonscreen Film Festival, Solana Campbell

Through Their Eyes: AANHPI Expression, Amelia Stefanescu

NEWS

A Night at AU: SASA Cultural Night, Solana Campbell

Interview with Professor Daniel Weber: Envision Magazine, Interviewed By: Brendan Oh

Interview with Gloria Oh: Transforming an Idea into Reality, Interviewed By: Brendan Oh

IDEAS

All …

Digital Capital And Belonging In Universities: Quantifying Social Inequalities In The Philippines, Wilfred Luis Clamor, Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu

Sociology & Anthropology Department Faculty Publications

This study examines social inequalities in Philippine universities that were exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. A quantitative approach using a national sample of 677 university students was utilized to measure the mediating role of digital capital on social inequalities associated with belonging to academic spaces. For the purpose of determining direct and indirect impacts, structural equation modeling (SEM) was employed. Sociodemographic (i.e., gender, age, type of residence, and family income) and educational (i.e., type of university, year in the university, and excellence criterion) characteristics were the direct predictors that were examined as exogenous variables for both digital capital and belonging. …

Wmu Board Of Trustees Formal Session April 27, 2023, Wmu Board Of Trustee

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

Acceptance of the Agenda

Approval of the Minutes (March 23, 2023 Meeting)

Remarks by the Chair

Remarks by the President

Updates by the Faculty Senate President

Updates by the Western Student Association President

Student Success Hub

Public Comments Regarding Action Items

Action Items

• Naming the “W Plaza”
• One Day Liquor License Applications, Waldo Stadium

Consent Items

• Curriculum Proposals
• Personnel Report

General Public Comments

The Art Of Museum Studies, Brianda Gonzalez

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

Includes a brief description of the Collection, a summary of the tasks performed in internship, and photos of some objects and cabinets in the collection.

Internship In Bioarchaeology & Forensic Anthropology: Bones!, Alicia Martinez

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

This internship focuses on how human remains and skeletal analysis can tell us a great deal about an individual, such as age at death, sex, stature, population affinity, trauma and disease. Techniques learned in Loyola's Human Osteology course have been key in my assistance at The Field Museum of Natural Science and Cook County Medical Examiner's Office. I discuss my experience in working with forensic anthropology cases as well as studying and obtaining metrics on individuals from The Rush Medical Collection of 1898.

May Weber Ethnographic Study Collection: Museum Studies/Collections Management Intern, Hannah Sween

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

The responsibilities of Museum Studies/Collections Management interns in the May Weber Ethnographic Research and Teaching Collection serve the development of the collection through the physical care and management of cultural objects and documents, handling techniques, cataloguing procedures, and records digitization. Interns engage with a variety of topics related to anthropology and the care and use of cultural materials including the development of collections, their purpose, and their ethical management.

Museum Conservation In The May Weber Ethnographic Collection, Leah Swan

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

My presentation will be on my work in the May Weber Ethnographic Collection at Loyola. This will include the different skills I’ve learned for museum conservation work in my internship. I will detail the steps for creating a catalogue record for an object, answer what an inventory is and why it is important, provide some of my experience organizing the archival records, and show how I create storage solutions for archival rehousing.

Fresh Off The Press, Linfield Magazine Staff

Linfield Magazine

A look at recently published books by Linfield faculty.

Alumni Notes, Linfield Magazine Staff

Linfield Magazine

News about Linfield alumni

Tessellations Around The World, Julia Simoneau

Academic Festival

Tessellations are a well-known concept seen all over the world. They are the notion of one or more geometric shapes being repeated several times on a plane with no gaps or overlaps. They are often seen in art, architecture, computer science, mapping, and more. There are also a few different varieties of tessellations, where some are more intricate than others. For example, the Voronoi tessellation is a special tessellation formed from a set of finite points on the Euclidean plane. Each of these finite points is called a seed which corresponds to a polygon, a Voronoi cell, which contains all …

Father Grollig Legacy Collections Project, Sophea Brandley, Joanna Ruiz

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

Loyola’s Anthropology Department was founded in 1959 by Father Grollig who traveled the world collecting artifacts and promoting a Jesuit education. Despite amassing a rich inventory, his collection is not well documented, nor are many of his career efforts and personal life. To address these issues, we will discuss our legacy collections project, which involves archival research and artificial intelligence to learn more about Father Grollig in an effort to provide greater context information for his collection and the foundational role played by Father Grollig in the Loyola community. Our research also emphasizes the importance of doing legacy and collections-based …

Most Vulgar And Barbarous: A History Of Tattoo Stigma, Sophie Luzier

Young Historians Conference

For thousands of years, tattoos have been used cross-culturally for purposes ranging from religious affiliation to ritual. Still, many societies today associate tattoos with deviance and criminality, making it difficult for tattooed people to find employment and acceptance within society. This negative stigma can be traced all the way back to Ancient Greece, when tattoos were used to mark slaves and prisoners of war. Other examples are given from Dynastic China, Japan, the American circus, and the Holocaust. This examination of tattoo stigma throughout history exposes larger patterns of racism, hegemony, and ostracism, and gives us an awareness of social …

Death And Vengeance Behind Every Corner: The Great Purge And The Psychology Of Joseph Stalin, Isabella Gurin

Young Historians Conference

Under Joseph Stalin’s rule of the Soviet Union, the Purges, or “repressions” as they are now known in Russia, led to the direct and indirect deaths of an estimated twenty million people through starvation, executions, and forced labor camps. As the uncontested dictator of the Soviet Union for nearly twenty-five years, Stalin made no attempt to gain popular support among his nation but enforced his interpretation of communist-socialist rule by means of unremitting oppression and terror. Why did he utilize such vindictive measures? Was it his absolute aversion to any authority and ruthless insistence on total control at all times? …

Spartan Daily, April 26, 2023, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2023

Volume 160, Issue 36

The College Voice, Vol. 57, No. 11 [April 26, 2023], Connecticut College

2022-2023

No abstract provided.

Focusing Our Attention On Socially Responsive Professional Education To Serve Ethnogeriatric Populations With Neurogenic Communication Disorders In The United States, José G. Centeno, Loraine K. Obler, Linda Collins, Gloriajean Wallace, Valarie B. Fleming, Jacqueline Guendouzi

Communication Sciences and Disorders Faculty Articles and Research

Purpose:

This viewpoint discusses a plausible framework to educate future speech-language pathologists (SLPs) as socially responsive practitioners who serve and advocate for the burgeoning vulnerable ethnogeriatric populations with neurogenic communication disorders.

Method:

We provide an overview of the demographic, epidemiological, and biopsychosocial context that supports the implementation of equity-based, population-grounded educational approaches for speech-language pathology services in ethnogeriatric neurorehabilitation caseloads and discuss a plausible perspective based on the educational social determinants of health (SDOH) framework by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Results:

The NASEM's three-domain SDOH educational perspective integrates education, community, and organization to create a self-reinforcing …

A Stable Isotopic Profile Of Atmospheric River Precipitation Impacting Northern California, Erika Clarise Ornouski

LSU Master's Theses

Atmospheric river (AR) storms are an integral part of California’s hydrologic cycle, providing 30–50% of the state’s annual precipitation. However, “too much of a good thing” can swell

rivers beyond capacity leading to widespread flooding, erosion, and environmental damage. Northern California’s steep topography coupled with its seasonal Sierra Nevada snowpack puts this region at risk for floods and extreme weather hazards that can be triggered by strong ARs. Identifying AR contributions in the water cycle is crucial for informing water resource and emergency management decisions Stable isotope analysis provides a means to understand the movement of precipitation based on fractionation …

148 - The Perception Of Communication: The Ways Clinicians And Parents Of Chronically Ill Children Communicate, Jenna Guyette

GREAT Day Posters

Children with chronic illnesses are often exposed to many medical facilities and providers who must speak to them about their illness. Due to the sensitivity of the topic and the emotional strain, the communication can be weaker or strained from the physicians. The aim of this research was to determine how parents are the main information source and how these parents and other clinicians perceive the communication of the information provider as weak. The participants included three parents and two clinicians who underwent an interview and filled out a questionnaire about communication independently in connection with a child’s illness (their …

232 - A General Mortality Analysis In 19th And Early 20th Century Rochester, New York: "Exploring Sex-Based Differences In Childhood And Adolescent Mortality Rates Across Age Groups.”, Chizoba Okorie

GREAT Day Posters

This poster presentation was completed by Chizoba Okorie, under the guidance of the Faculty Advisor, Professor Kristi Krumrine, in the Department of Anthropology and Sociomedical Science. Abstract: This presentation represents the initial phase of a research study that explores health and disease in 19th-and early 20th-century Rochester. The research focuses on the prevalence of historic diseases through the transcription and analysis of cemetery records for Mount Hope Cemetery. The purpose of this study is to compare mortality rates in childhood and adolescence across different age groups of males and females. The study investigates the average ages at death, as well …

236 - Cholera, Water Sanitation, And Socioeconomic Status In 19th Century Rochester, New York, Lora Odeh

GREAT Day Posters

The completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 allowed for the rapid expansion of the City of Rochester. The creation of the Erie Canal led to the spread of infectious diseases, especially cholera, as German and Irish immigrants moved west in search of job opportunities. As the city of Rochester grew, so did cholera and other waterborne diseases. Many of these immigrants lived in overcrowded public housing, where infectious diseases like cholera were rampant, which resulted in the stigmatization of these groups. Using historic records from Mt. Hope Cemetery, this study explores how cholera and later water sanitation projects affected …

Decolonial Queer Poetic, Aparajita Dutta

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Queer bodies, produced by poetry, conjure dissident bodies who exist as citizens within the scope of the nation. In this analysis, I take into consideration Indian queer poetry, from both India and the diaspora, because bodies produced through this poetry reveal intersectional identities of queerness like race, and caste, that will help us understand how non-normative bodies exist along with other forms of marginalized identities like caste and race. In absence of academic scholarship on Indian queer poetry’s connection to the construction of nationhood, I aim to survey Indian queer poetry from mainland India and the Northern American diaspora, and …

The Influence Of Motivation To Control Prejudice On Facial Processing Flexibility In Individuals Who Identify As Biracial, Chloë Steckart

Honors Theses

Facial processing is one of the most important and immediate aspects of cognition (Jaeger, 2019; Kovács, 2020). Race is an extremely salient facial processing cue that has immediate and long-term impacts on how we interact with others (Oosterhof & Todorov, 2008; Senholzi & Ito, 2013; Blascovich et al., 2017; Kawakami et al., 2022). Race is a powerful in-group in American contexts, and race cues in facial processing play a part in determining in- and out-group members (Tropp & Wright, 2001; Castano et al., 2002).

We investigated how race impacts the facial processing of individuals who identify as Biracial and whether, …

Wind Symphony

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

Program for the Wind Symphony performance on April 26, 2023.

Supporting The Pedagogical Development Of Graduate Teaching Assistants: A Self-Directed Approach, Katie Cwiakala

Masters Projects

Despite increases in formal pedagogical training opportunities for graduate teaching assistants across institutions in recent decades, students participate in instructional roles with different levels of participation, experience, and autonomy in teaching. This project examines the existing professional development available to graduate teaching assistants, their self-reported needs, and provides a pedagogical development planning tool for graduate teaching assistants. The Pedagogical Development Plan for Graduate Teaching Assistants incorporates suggestions from reviewed literature, as well as andragogy theory (Knowles, 1980) and self-efficacy theory (Bandura, 1982). The framework consists of a self-guided planning document tool and catalog of pedagogical development opportunities available to graduate …